Usually it means that the file changed while rsync was running. But it can also mean that a hardware problem (usually RAM) is causing the hashing to return bogus results.
On 6/3/19 6:09 AM, sambalist--- via rsync wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On a daily backup script, I am getting a lot of these messages:
>
> WARNING: <filename> -- update retained (will try again).
>
> I've tried googling, but i can't figure out what these messages exactly
> mean and how i can solve them.
>
> Any hint?
>
> Thank you
>
> Gabriele
>
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